Doctors paid to 'lend' names to other hospitals

Doctors at two-thirds of Japan's 79 medical schools received financial compensation in exchange for allowing hospitals to list their names on physician rosters even though they did not work there, according to the education ministry.

A ministry probe, whose results were released Thursday, showed that 1,161 doctors -- of whom 964 were graduate students -- at 51 public and private medical schools allowed hospitals to use their names between April 2002 and September 2003.